Blogger Highlight: Wicked Little Pixie

During 2012, I’m trying to highlight a few bloggers in the romance blogosphere just in case you all were looking for more resources for book recommendations. Today we are featuring Wicked Little Pixie. I’ve heard Natasha and Sara are from Canada but their blogging pals cover the rest of the U.S. with Pamela from Texas and Julie from Michigan.

1) When did you first start blogging?

I started blogging way back in the My Dear Diary days back in the mid 90’s, then moved to LiveJournal & Xanga before finally settling on WordPress in last 2008. That’s when I made my blog 95% book related, prior to that there would be scattered book chat but nothing as concrete and focused as what we do now.

2) What inspired you to blog?

Obvious answer aside (my love of reading), it was meeting a random woman at my first book singing (Sherrilyn Kenyon). This woman told me about all sorts of books I’d never even heard of because she had found them on book blogs. I was shocked, a blog 100% dedicated to talking about books. Count me in!

3) Describe what your blog does now?

When I changed to the all books format, it was strictly paranormal romance and urban fantasy reviews. Now we do YA, some erotica, contemporary and horror. Just reading the same genres and talking about them back to back to back takes a toll on you. We also do interviews, host guest bloggers and author tours and of course giveaways. Then we have rants, which are always fun to do and a lot of fun to interact in the comments with.

4) What is your favorite feature on your blog?

We have a feature that’s sort of random, where we speak to musicians about books. I’m a huge music fan, with extremely eclectic tastes. So bringing two things I love so much together and having it turn out to be so much fun has been pretty awesome. We’ve had Henry Rollins, Bono of U2 and lots local bands.

The community without a doubt is one of the best things about blogging. I have maybe two “real life” friends who read the genres I do, and no one that reads at my pace, so it was hard to connect with friends in terms of reading. I love being able to read a book with another blogger or reader at the same time, to share the WTF and OMG moments. Plus, I feel like we’re sort of a family now. I know blogger babies, birthdays, break ups and marriages and names of pets. We rally together as a dysfunctional family to offer support and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

6) What is the worst thing?

I’d have to say, the community is also the worst thing about blogging. We tend to jump first and ask questions after, most of the time it’s really something that in the grand scheme of things doesn’t matter to us but we pitchfork. We are very protective of each other, which is great but some times it goes just a bit overboard.

7) If you had the money, what would be the one thing you would hire someone to do for your blog?

Without a doubt if I had the money, the first thing I would do would be to hire someone to format all our blog posts! I absolutely detest the amount of time it takes to format each individual blog post to get it ready to publish. Especially when I have to not only do mine, but the rest of the ladies!

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Jane Litte is the founder of Dear Author, a lawyer, and a lover of pencil skirts. She self publishes NA and contemporaries (and publishes with Berkley and Montlake) and spends her downtime reading romances and writing about them. Her TBR pile is much larger than the one shown in the picture and not as pretty.
You can reach Jane by email at jane @ dearauthor dot com

I found Wicked Little Pixie via an interview mentioning a favorite author. The rants gave the blog personality and I fell in love with the site.

I think right around Halloween there was a photo round up taken inside a haunted house . Pixie’s captions for the pics had me falling out of my chair, crying I was laughing so hard.

WLP is great because it gives me exposure to books I’d be interested in reading and also keeps things real and fun at the same time. Plus, the Twitter personalities of all the ladies of WLP are great fun. If you don’t follow them, I recommend it. ;)

I love working with Nat and the girls. <3 They totally embrace my weirdness, which is something I value like mad.

I do find it funny how many people find the blog via our rants. (Though to be fair, I'm not sure how I found Wicked Lil Pixie to begin. It might have been as simple as snark on Twitter. Actually, it was probably snark on Twitter…)

I think I discovered Wicked Lil Pixie because they were running a contest, then I got sucked in by the snark and when they called for more bloggers I applied.
Working with Nat and all the other members of her blogging harem has been a fantastic experience.
When Nat mentions the community of blogging she isn’t kidding. Over and over again the ladies of WLP have supported, encouraged and otherwise cared for each other. I am very happy to call these ladies friends.

The rants and random posts are some of my favourites to read and to write, I glad people like them so much. :)

I know EXACTLY how I found my Wicked Little Pixie! Sarah at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books did a live blog reading of Snooki’s infamous book.

It was absolutely the most fun I have had in YEARS. Those of us who powered through the whole thing (read: did not have traditional jobs that forced us away from the blog-fest) had a sort of PTSD comradery that was composed in part by disbelief at the sheer insanity of what we had exposed ourselves to. Also, a clearly warped and shared sense of humor.

We (those of us who clung together for the entire ordeal) joined forces on Twitter. After a few days, I figured out that WLP reviewed books! I followed her blog! I found out that she also RANTS! God bless the internet. I’ve met some of my very best friends there.

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